Baby Boomers in Retirement: An Early Perspective

1990 Current Population 20th percentile 65 and older age group ages 35 ages 55 baby boomers boomers in retirement Budget Office tabulations Census cohort Congressional Budget Office consumer debt Consumer Finances Current Population Survey decline dollars early boomers earnings economic financial assets Head of Household headed by unmarried High School Degree higher home ownership homeowners Household Age 25 households headed housing assets housing equity housing wealth income and wealth Income of Households income quintile increased late boomers less than income less than one-half Marital Status married couples Married Head median household income Median income Median nonhousing wealth median ratio median value Median wealth Medicare ment mortgage nonhomeowners parents percent Percentage poverty threshold private pensions ratio of wealth real income retirement age saving rates Social Security benefits SOURCE Survey of Consumer Table tirement total wealth Wealth is less wealth to income Wealth-to-Income Ratios workers young adults